THE BIG QUESTION
“What is the meaning of life?”

The great quest - to find meaning in life.

I devoted my life to filling all the roles, pursuing all the achievements, and engaging with all the relationships I thought would provide the greatest meaning to my life. Only to come to the reckoning that the world doesn't give meaning to my life. I do. 

“We don't make meaning from what happens to us. We make meaning from how we happen to ourselves.”

Kevin Miller

BIO

I interest myself with how we make meaning in life and devote myself to research and providing guidance in meaning-making from a place of complete personal ownership.

After a lifetime in the self-improvement industry I co-developed the SAGE Process, a revolutionary correction to modern psychological thinking regarding how we make meaning in our lives.

The result I desire from my efforts, for myself and others, is a more secure being. A more at peace soul.

And the ability to satisfy oneself regardless of the circumstances and to live a life of authentic interest instead of need.

I write, speak, and conduct conversations around meaning making, inner agency, and inner security

 Some Context

Here is some history of activities I’ve involved myself with, for better and worse. Some of the numbers could seem impressive, and/or they could showcase the arc of a story that helped some people, and hurt others. Myself included. But they provide context of what I’m qualified to engage with.

None define me. They were all, my identity. Today…they are not.

  • Former Pro Cyclist

  • 20 Business Start-Ups

  • Host of The Ziglar Show, Ranked #2 All-Time Career podcast for two years on Apple Podcast

  • Authored - What Drives You: How to Discover Your Unique Motivators and Accelerate Growth in Work and Life 

  • A decade of podcasting with over 75M downloads, 1,700 episodes, 350 guests

  • 32 years of marriage, the height of ecstasy to the pit of catastrophe. Now divorced 

  • 9 children, adoption, pseudo-foster care, and more

  • Built a dream homestead in the Rockies. Lost in the destruction of the divorce

  • 45 years of devout Christianity, deconstructed

  • Currently residing in the Rocky Mountains living a physically active and mentally contemplative lifestyle

The Crux

I spent the first 50 years of my life being normal. Chasing the roles, duties, experiences, and achievements of life. Doing. I “did” life. Maybe I overdid some areas. But I did it with gusto.

Until I couldn’t. 

My burnout started starkly but evolved slowly. Much of what I built came to an end. Which is fitting. Because I came to my end.

I don’t regret my past. But I have many, many regrets from my past. I meant well. I know my heart had such good intent. But I was so blind. So internally insecure in my identity. Worse than insecure I was just unaware. I was so confident but missed how co-dependent I was, relying on my abilities to earn my own self-worth.

Five years. It’s taken five years to deconstruct and let go of my identity and all the efforts to secure it, and reorient my life around a different understanding of being. A different role as a human being and a very different way of being.

Most of my life reorientation took monumental letting go, and a lot of guidance. During my own dark night of the soul where I felt I was losing most all I held dear, I met some guides. To me it was like an existential movie scene of “when the student is ready, the teachers appeared.”

I’m tempted to say it was this guidance that saved me, as I don’t know how else to communicate what I experienced. And within the guidance I found the missing puzzle pieces I had been seeking for so long. 

During my lifetime in the self-improvement industry amidst the best in psychology, science, and spirituality I had continued to bump up against disconnections, and questioned the amount of transformation anyone was making, myself included.

The guidance turned into my devotion, and this is the SAGE Process.